Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jun 2006)

Acanthamoeba Encephalitis in Patient with Systemic Lupus, India

  • Charudatt G. Shirwadkar,
  • Rohini Samant,
  • Milind Sankhe,
  • Ramesh Deshpande,
  • Shigeo Yagi,
  • Frederick L. Schuster,
  • Rama Sriram,
  • Govinda S. Visvesvara

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1206.060087
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 6
pp. 984 – 986

Abstract

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We report a fatal case of encephalitis caused by Acanthamoeba in a 24-year-old woman from India with systemic lupus erythematosus. Diagnosis was made by identification of amebas in brain sections by immunofluorescence analysis and confirmed by demonstrating Acanthamoeba mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene DNA in brain tissue sections.

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